In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
BARBARA SHERThinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
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Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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